The pale fluorescent lighting illuminates a lady knitting. A man reading. Another person with work files open. Another napping.

All while a Transit Authority of River City express bus rolls down Interstate 71 south, heading to downtown Louisville.

The knitter is Janet Honican, who refers to the other riders as her “bus family.” A typical trip takes about 45 minutes from end-to-end, and Honican said it’s easy for her to tell if the bus is on schedule.

The 57-year-old Westport resident who claims he shot two women in self-defense Dec. 18 spent Christmas weekend in Oldham County jail on unrelated charge and was taken back into custody Wednesday afternoon.

Oldham County Police arrested Ronnie Evridge for a probation violation for a misdemeanor offense Friday. Evridge remained in custody through Tuesday evening.

The Oldham County Public Library will be offering to assist customers who need a little help getting to know their new Christmas digital items.

Visit the reference desk at the Main Branch of the Oldham County Library and a friendly and knowledgeable “i-brarian” can show you how to use various models of e-readers, MP3 players, notebooks and tablets — and how to locate the free e-book collection available from the library.

The 3-year-old class at Kids Haven By Sandy, a child development center in La Grange, learned what giving to those less fortunate about you means this holiday season.

The students created a "Giving Tree" this Christmas decorated with new gloves and hats for children. They bagged them up last week and delivered them to the American Red Cross chapter in Buckner for distribution to families in need.

Pictured are the students and and their teachers, Jamie Ely and Rita Smith.

After a major spike in drug-and alcohol-related suspensions three years ago, Oldham County school officials developed a plan to reduce those numbers — and it’s working.

Projections for this school year estimate the number of student suspensions will be half what they were in the 2008-09 school year, the year before the plan’s implementation. This school year there have been 23 suspensions, compared to 53 at the same time last year.

Building 7A at Luther Luckett Correctional Complex in La Grange isn’t a typical prison dormitory. It is home to the prison’s only single-cell wing. Out of nearly 1,000 inmates, only 12 have single-bunk cells to themselves.

Well, not to themselves. They still have to share their cell — with a dog.

The inmates are handlers in Luther Luckett’s Camp Canine program, which trains dogs from the Oldham County Animal Shelter.